DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of June 3 - 7, 2002

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

This week we have two major events involving ECE:

The first is the ECE Awards Luncheon/Reception to be held on Thursday, June 6, at noon in Room L324.

The second is the meeting of the Motorola Center and the poster session for the Motorola sponsored undergraduate research projects. Both of these are being held at Motorola on Friday, June 7, with the Center meeting at 8:30 am and the poster session at 1:00 pm.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

SPECIAL SEMINAR
DATE: Tuesday, June 4, 2002
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "ASIC Design of Porous Silicon MEMS for Pressure and Vapor Sensing with Phase Detection Electronics"
NAME: Hiranmay Saha, Professor, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

CENTER FOR QUANTUM DEVICES (CQD) Seminar/Colloquium
DATE: Thursday, June 6, 2002
TIME: 8:30 am
PLACE: MLSB/Cook Hall Room 4051
TITLE: "New Dissipation Concepts for the Performance Analysis of
Nonlinear Systems"
SPEAKER: Dr. Randy Freeman, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University

CENTER FOR QUANTUM DEVICES (CQD) Seminar/Colloquium
DATE: Friday, June 7, 2002
TIME: 9:00 am
PLACE: MLSB/Cook Hall Room 4051
TITLE: "MEMS Technology for Integrative Microsystems"
SPEAKER: Dr. Reza Ghodssi, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

EXAMINATIONS

Thursday, June 6, 2002: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 4:00 p.m.
Room L324
Peijuan Liu
"High Utility-Rate Forward-Link Resource Allocation in Wireless Systems"
Committee Members: M. Honig (chairman), R. Berry, and A. Haddad

TRAVEL

Professor Manijeh Razeghi traveled to Budapest, Hungary, May 26-29, to give an invited talk entitled, "High Performance Quantum Cascade Laser Results at the Center for Quantum Devices," at EXMATEC 2002 6th International Workshop on Expert Evaluation & Control of Compound Semiconductor Materials & Technologies.

CFS NEWS

WILKINSON KEY DEACTIVATIONS

Often students place a deposit on a Wilkinson lab key, finish their degrees, and leave without collecting their deposits. This means there are a lot of keys out there that need to be culled from the active list.

http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/CSEL/news-keys.html

contains a list of Marlok keys that have not been used in over a year and which will all be deactivated on July 1st, 2002. Please check your key against this list. If you find a match, then drop by the CFS offices in Tech M334 (adjacent to the Wilkinson lab) and we'll remove your key from the list.

-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager

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